Gun control discussion

[Lady's Human]

My point is simple:

We as a society can regulate effectively, but bans have always been completely and totally ineffective.

There's a long history in the US of rum running, drug smuggling, and other dodges, and there are too many intelligent people who see a buck to be made if they can avoid John Law. Heck, we even smuggle 3L per flush toilets, and there's nothing customs has been able to do to stop it.

As a society we're extremely skilled about getting around bans and prohibitions of all sorts, a gun ban would just be one more avenue to make money.

[RICHARD]

'Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, goodwill toward men”-Luke 2: 14

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I'd settle for one of the three, guess which one...........

[Catty1]

An interesting viewpoint (on which I have no opinion):

http://newcity.com/2012/12/19/dime-s...ar-of-the-gun/

[Edwina's Secretary]

My point is simple:

We as a society can regulate effectively, but bans have always been completely and totally ineffective.

There's a long history in the US of rum running, drug smuggling, and other dodges, and there are too many intelligent people who see a buck to be made if they can avoid John Law. Heck, we even smuggle 3L per flush toilets, and there's nothing customs has been able to do to stop it.

As a society we're extremely skilled about getting around bans and prohibitions of all sorts, a gun ban would just be one more avenue to make money.

Last time I check there have been no mass murders with toilets.

Fine - if regulate is better than legislate - let get cracking and make some REAL regulations about guns. I am more afraid of the Rambo wannabee who thinks he or she can outshot the bad guys, the person who is so afraid of things they must have a pistol on them at all times, or the person who owns a gun but keeps it where it can be easily used by a child, a deranged adult, or stolen.

[RICHARD]

"W-w-w-w-w-wh-h-h-h-h-h-h-y-y-y-y-y-y-y me-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e--e-e-e?"

- Nancy Kerrigan.

[Lady's Human]

Last time I check there have been no mass murders with toilets.

Fine - if regulate is better than legislate - let get cracking and make some REAL regulations about guns. I am more afraid of the Rambo wannabee who thinks he or she can outshot the bad guys, the person who is so afraid of things they must have a pistol on them at all times, or the person who owns a gun but keeps it where it can be easily used by a child, a deranged adult, or stolen.

I think the person whose fear is running their life is you. You certainly seem to spend an inordinate amount of time railing against objects that are less likely to harm you than a car or a doctor.

[lizbud]

I think the person whose fear is running their life is you. You certainly seem to spend an inordinate amount of time railing against objects that are less likely to harm you than a car or a doctor.

Sounds like a snarky comment, minus any real value.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Sounds like a snarky comment, minus any real value.

Well of course it is snarky.

But I also find it terribly funny. A person who is so afraid of other people...so very afraid he needs to have guns around for protection to suggest someone else is afraid!! (Although it might be lions and tigers and bears he is so afraid of I suppose.)

Now would that be ironic as well as funny? Or just hypocritical?

I wonder how many times I have said it is not the gun - the inanimate object - I fear - it is the person who is so afraid of the world around they need a gun. Is is ten, 20? Why look! In the very post he quotes I said it!

Tiresome to hear the same - totally inaccurate - snark isn't it?

[blue]

I am far more fearful of other drivers then I am of other gun owners. I have been tboned twice while driving, both times the other driver at fault. I have also been shot at twice, once within less then a foot of my head.

Most of my neighbors fire into their back yards and it doesnt bother me, the hills make good backdrops. Ive lived here 10 years and it happens every day or so.

ETA to point out the obvious: Post 443 is complete and total snark.

[blue]

It appear it's only okay to make snarky remarks when you are against firearms.

How so?

ETA: and its appears btw, how is that for snark?.